The Vermont's Table Speaker Series at Sterling College is proud to announce that noted author Gary Paul Nabhan will be presenting on campus. His talk, “Tapping Into the Wisdom of Traditional Farmers: Sustainably Growing Food in the Face of Climate Uncertainty,” will be given on Tuesday, January 28, at 6:30 p.m. in Simpson Hall, Classroom 3. This talk is free and open to the public.
Nabhan is the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona, as well as the permaculture designer and orchard-keeper of Almuniya de los Zopilotes Experimental Farm in Patagonia, Arizona. Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the local-food movement and grassroots seed conservation, Nabhan was honored by Utne Reader in 2011 as one of twelve people making the world a better place to live.
Nabhan is a recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award. He has published over twenty books, including Desert Terroir, Where Our Food Comes From, and Woodlands in Crisis. Publishers’ Weekly said of his latest book, Food, Genes, and Culture—Eating Right for Your Origins, “Mixing hard science with personal anecdotes, Nabhan convincingly argues that health comes from a genetically appropriate diet inextricably entwined with a healthy land and culture.”
His talk, “Tapping Into the Wisdom of Traditional Farmers: Sustainably Growing Food in the Face of Climate Uncertainty,” will discuss adapting diversity of food crops to climate extremes, taking examples from traditional and innovative farmers on five continents and eschewing “climate-ready” GE crops.
For more information on the College and its mission of environmental stewardship, please visit www.sterlingcollege.edu.
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